At Redfern Legal we help clients navigate the challenges of securing funding and negotiating the terms of investment. We also advise investors on the nuances of funding high-growth companies. Clients ...
How to Spot a Potential Unicorn Business – Insights from Venture Capitalist Experts
At Redfern Legal, we help our clients navigate the challenges of securing VC funding and negotiating the terms of their fundraising. We also advise VC investment firms, VC trusts and investment funds ...
Scale Up Visa
The Scale-up Worker visa is a new immigration route for a fast-growing UK business across all industry sectors. It was introduced in August 2022. It is not great. Scale-Ups are start-ups that have ach...
Adding a New Partner in a Business Partnership
Given that market conditions are constantly changing, it is not unusual practice for a business partnership to recruit a new additional partner to either change the trajectory of the business or to in...
Changes to UK’s insolvency regime in the wake of Covid could spell trouble for suppliers
Within weeks of the 1st Covid-19 lockdown, Parliament enacted several changes to the UK insolvency regime over concerns of possible disruptions to the economy. According to George Marques, Head of Cor...
Mandatory Whistleblowing Requirements for EU Companies
EU companies with more than 50 employees may need to implement changes to ensure compliance with the stringent new EU laws on whistleblowing. Non-EU subsidiaries may also be affected. The EU Whistlebl...
Supreme Court’s decision in £3billion data privacy case may come as a relief for data controllers
The Supreme Court has handed down their eagerly awaited decision in the £3billion case of Lloyd v Google. The court blocked the claim by Richard Lloyd, representing 4 million iPhone users, from proce...
New Standard Contractual Clauses Required for EU Personal Data Transfers
Personal data cannot legally be transferred outside the EU/EEA (European Economic Area), or indeed the UK, without specific legal safeguards in place, unless the country in question has been deemed to...
Mandatory climate change reporting for organisations from 2022
The UK Government is proposing that from 2022 all large UK private companies and LLPs must include a report on climate change in their annual report. In this case, “large” means organisations with...
UK Modern Slavery Statement Registry for Large Organisations
The UK government has launched a Modern Slavery Statement Registry in order for organisations to publish the positive steps taken to address the risk of modern slavery in their supply chains. Includin...
